[PD-dev] [bug] FreeBSD configure fails

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

If you want this bug to be remembered, submit a bug report.

As for configure, its not so bad for most things, but it can be  
strange.  Mostly, its just like writing a shell script.  I would be  
easy to make it test for both tcl84 and tcl8.4, for example.  If you  
actually read the pd/src/configure.in, I think you'll be able to make  
the change quite easiler.

.hc

On May 30, 2006, at 3:21 PM, mal content wrote:

> Hello.
>
> ./configure fails on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p7 because
> the script looks in /usr/include and /usr/lib when tcl/tk is usually
> installed (via ports) into /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib.
>
> The script also tests for linkage against the tcl and tk libraries
> with the -ltcl8.X and -ltk8.X flags, when for no apparent reason,
> FreeBSD names the libraries:
>
> libtcl84.so                    (-ltcl84)
> libtk84.so                     (-ltk84)
>
> Don't you just love unnecessary breakage of standard file
> paths?
>
> I'd submit a patch for the configure script, unfortunately, I don't
> understand autoconf at all and going by some of the stories I've
> heard from other devs, I really don't want to understand it...
>
> cheers,
> MC
>
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